Re: is there Ada package similar to Matlab textscan?

["Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>]

On 2015-07-17 05:52, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:


> one parse each field one by one themselves after
> reading the file line by line? 


Gnat.Awk is line based but parsing is simple:


with GNAT; use GNAT;
with GNAT.AWK;
with Text_io;
procedure Test is

  Computer_File : AWK.Session_Type;

begin
  AWK.Set_Current (Computer_File);
  AWK.Open (Separators => ",",
            Filename   => "path/to/file.dat");

  while not AWK.End_Of_File loop
    AWK.Get_Line;
    if AWK.Field(4)  = "GB" and then
       AWK.Field (18) = "PE"  then

       Text_io.Put_Line(AWK.Field (5) & " | " &
                        AWK.Field (8) & " | " &
                        AWK.Field (2) & " | " &
                        AWK.Field (11));
    end if;
  end loop;
  AWK.Close (Computer_File);

  see
<https://www2.adacore.com/gap-static/GNAT_Book/html/rts/g-awk__ads.htm>

for more examples

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Björn